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In this contemporary retelling of Anne of Green Gables, Anne Shirley, a queer, half-Japanese disco superfan, moves to a town that seems too small for her big personality and where she becomes embroiled in a series of dramatic and unfortunate events.

One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion is based on ancient Greek mythology. Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era British playwrights. Shaw's updated and revised version of this ancient Greek legend was first presented in England in 1914. Poking fun of the antiquated British class system, it introduces Henry Higgins, a professor...

Cumbres borrascosas es una de las novelas más destacadas y potentes del siglo XIX. Narra la apasionada y tempestuosa historia de Catherine y Heathcliff, dos seres atormentados que se debaten entre la pasión, el odio, la obsesión y la venganza; un amor desesperado que traspasa las fronteras de la muerte y que hace de esta obra una de las más atractivas de todos los tiempos. Ambientada en los páramos de Yorkshire, el paisaje se erige como un personaje...

While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.

Note: This edition of the first Lord Peter Wimsey novel is narrated in an American accent. Mild-mannered, inoffensive architect Alfred Thipps finds himself in big trouble when, in preparing to take his morning bath, he finds the tub already occupied by a dead body, wearing nothing but a pair of gold pince-nez glasses. Stolid, unimaginative Police Inspector Sugg is convinced the body is that of Sir Reuben Levy, a famous Jewish financier who disappeared...

A cat who is used to being the center of attention learns to share his home with a rabbit.

Timber wolves, a rocky Mountain blizzard, and a mine cave-in are only a few of the perils Frank and Joe Hardy encounter during their search for the notorious gang responsible for a payroll robbery.

A revelatory new translation of Gogol's comedy by renowned playwright Richard Nelson and Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky--the foremost contemporary translators of classic Russian literature including the best-selling Oprah's Book Club selection, Anna Karenina--marks the first of a series of translations of important Russian plays over the next ten years.

Extrait: "Pendant un jour, beaucoup d'hommes en chairs et en os avaient remué beaucoup d'hommes en livres. Ces derniers étaient tirés de leur coin o parfois, ils reposent en quiétude grande, montrant pour visage, leurs dos o est leur nom." À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN Les éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de qualité de grands livres de la littérature classique mais également des livres rares en partenariat avec la BNF....

The sisters of STREET CHILD tell their story... A companion novel to bestselling story of Victorian orphan Jim Jarvis based on the founding of Dr. Barnardo's homes for children. When Jim Jarvis is separated from his sisters, Lizzie and Emily, he thinks he will never see them again. Now for the first time, the bestselling author of STREET CHILD reveals what happened to his orphaned sisters. In Victorian London, Lizzie and Emily are left in the care...